The presenters of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! will be the first pair
to appear on Desert Island Discs since 1987

Ant and Dec are to appear together on Desert Island Discs, making them the show’s first duo for more than 25 years.

The presenters of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! are following in the footsteps of Morecambe and Wise, Bob Monkhouse and writing partner Denis Godwin and ventriloquist Peter Brough with puppet Archie Andrews. The last pair to give their desert island choices were Spitting Image creators Fluck and Law back in 1987.

Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly first met as child actors and appeared together on the groundbreaking children’s soap Byker Grove in the early Nineties. After a flirtation with the pop world as PJ and Duncan, they went on to have extraordinary success in ITV light entertainment with shows such as Saturday Night Takeaway and Britain’s Got Talent.

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This edition of Desert Island Discs was announced as part of Radio 4’s Christmas 2013 line-up. Comedian Miranda Hart will also be talking to Kirsty Young on the show. There will be a new dramatisation of Enid Bagnold’s equestrian classic National Velvet starring Alison Steadman, while several of Beatrix Potter’s tales have been adapted.

David Attenborough will be returning with more Tweets of the Day while Pam Ayres, Gyles Brandreth, Stephen Mangan and Paul Merton will appear in a festive Just a Minute.

Ant and Dec will appear on Desert Island Discs on Sunday 29 December on Radio 4.